The Orwell Project, playing at the Connelly Theater, has extended its engagement one week to March 14.

George Orwell's classic novels "Animal Farm" and "1984" come to life on stage in the musical and play adaptation. Synapse Productions presents the stagings, which began performances Feb. 2. Ginevra Bull directs 1984 and David Travis directs Animal Farm.

This production marks the American premiere of 1984 — an adaptation by Alan Lyddiard of Orwell's once-foreboding tale of how technology and an authoritarian "Big Brother" government will take over everyday life.

The musical adaptation of Animal Farm is by director Peter Hall, with music by Richard Peaslee and lyrics by Adrian Mitchell based on Orwell's novel. This staging is the New York premiere of this stage version. Puppet designers Emily DeCola and Eric Wright employ a variety of styles (hand, stick-and-rod, bunraku and masks) to animate Orwell's world of farm animals.